ORLANDO, FLORIDA, June 19, 2008: Over three hundred scholars, students, professors, and other participants are expected to gather in Orlando, Florida, to sort out clues from ancient Indian wisdom for the coming generations in the modern context of social, economic, environmental, and political upheavals throughout the world. This gathering (click URL above) will be at the Seventh International Conference on Vedic Heritage for the Global Welfare of the Next Generation, organized by the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES), a non-profit organization registered in the United States. Numerous papers have been received for discussing and deriving values from Vedic traditions for modern societal ills, such as water and air pollution, breakdown of social structure, and educational stagnancy. To highlight a direct role of youth in the deliberations, a Youth Plenary session is being organized where youth representatives from various groups are working to hold academic debate on the role of youth in promoting and developing Vedic ideas for current society.
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